‘This is what happens when schools are oversubscribed,’ parents yell as mum reveals her daughter is a door in Nativity

THERE’S a country successful Love Actually wherever Emma Thompson’s on-screen girl announces that she’ll beryllium playing “first lobster” successful the schoolhouse nativity play.

It seemed wholly bonkers erstwhile the festive movie was released successful 2003 - but according to immoderate parents, it’s not excessively acold from the information of nativities successful 2024. 

That includes writer Emma Szewczak, who precocious received an email from her daughter’s school saying that she has been formed arsenic a DOOR successful the spiritual play. 

It reads: “We person started preparations for our nativity. 

“We are truly looking guardant to seeing it travel unneurotic and cognize your kid volition beryllium excited, too!

“Your kid has been formed arsenic a door. This relation volition beryllium interactive.

“Their costumes tin beryllium purchased oregon created astatine location utilizing things specified arsenic cardboard and drawstring to make a sandwich committee benignant doorway for them to popular implicit their head.”

Emma was besides advised to bring the costume into the schoolhouse by November 25.

Shocked by the unconventional casting, she shared a screenshot of the email connected X (formerly known arsenic Twitter).

Her caption reads: “Nativity season is upon us! My lad has been formed arsenic a omniscient man. My daughter, connected the different hand…”

Emma past called connected Bridget Phillipson, the UK’s Secretary of State for Education, to instrumentality enactment of the puzzling email.

She added: “This is what happens erstwhile our schools are oversubscribed, Education Secretary.”

Fellow parents were speedy to measurement successful connected the equally-bizarre nativity castings their children person been given. 

One mum penned: “My girl was 1 of the 3 kings due to the fact that astatine the clip she was 1 of the tallest successful her class. 

“My lad went to a antithetic schoolhouse and was a cowboy.”

A 2nd said: “Our lad was a snowflake.  

“I’m not definite however overmuch snowfall was falling successful Bethlehem astatine the time.”

A 3rd quipped: “My lad got formed arsenic a maggot. 

“He came location crying - I conjecture due to the fact that the kids were being mean to him. 

“I went up to the schoolhouse and talked the teacher into changing him into thing else. 

“They did and they besides wholly took the maggot’s portion retired of the play.”

Other unconventional characters that radical callback their children and siblings being formed arsenic were “the backmost of a camel” and “a portion of holly successful an Advent Wreath”.